Fromage Frais

Fromage frais is a soft, light, smooth cheese with a fat content that varies from nil to over 60 per cent. The low fat kind is popular with nouvelle cuisine chefs and with people on fat-free diets as a replacement for cream. Fromage frais is usually made with cows’ milk, and since the cheese so closely resembles the soft cheese that I make from drained yoghurt I find this is the best method for producing a home-made equivalent to fromage frais.